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Vets groups' praise for Hagel adds pressure on GOP
WASHINGTON — Countering the Republican-led opposition to President Barack Obama's nominee for defense secretary is a less flashy but powerful constituency: military veterans.
Veterans' organizations have praised Chuck Hagel, a twice-wounded combat veteran of Vietnam and deputy administrator in President Ronald Reagan's Veterans Administration.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars has called him uniquely qualified to become Pentagon chief. The Military Officers Association of America said his experience gives him "a range of perspectives." The American Legion said he was a longtime advocate for veterans.
The organizations, which as congressionally chartered, stopped short of an outright endorsement.
Republican-leaning outside groups have waged a well-funded campaign against Hagel, airing television commercials, running full-page newspaper ads and expressing their opposition on local radio stations.
Officials from Americans for a Strong Defense, hoping to pressure Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor, spoke out on an Arkansas station this week.
Hagel's first test could come as early as Thursday with a possible vote in the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The committee chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., has said he would like to vote when the committee holds a hearing with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on last September's deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya.
Some Republicans on the committee are circulating a letter calling for a delay in the vote until Hagel provides more information about recent speeches, the groups he has addressed and their ties. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is dissatisfied with what Hagel, a former two-term GOP senator from Nebraska, has disclosed so far.
"I'm not going to make any decision on Sen. Hagel until we get all the information we've requested," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told a small group of reporters on Wednesday. "I don't think we should be voting."
Democrats were working to resolve the last-minute issues.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said his staff was trying to determine whether Cruz's questions are "are keeping with the normal parameters of what nominees are supposed to provide or whether it exceeds that."
In a letter to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who opposes the nominee, Hagel said he had been "forthright in disclosing all required information about my personal interests and holdings," but pointed out that the senator's request for financial information about private corporate and nonprofit entities "is, by contrast, not mine to provide."
Hagel said the information is "legally controlled by the individual entities and not mine to disclose."
Democrats hold a 14-12 edge on the committee and could hold a vote despite GOP objections.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter.
The competing pressures on lawmakers from GOP-leaning outside groups and veterans' organizations — plus Hagel's military service — explain why many Republicans have announced their opposition to Obama's choice but have shown no inclination to filibuster the nominee, say congressional aides.
All 55 Democrats are expected to back Hagel, and Republican Sens. Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Mike Johanns of Nebraska have announced they will vote for him. Several Republicans, including McCain, have said they would oppose a filibuster.
Hagel's past votes and statements unleashed a barrage of criticism that he is too weak in his support of Israel, too tolerant of Iran and willing to slash the nation's nuclear arsenal. His halting performance at his confirmation hearing led Graham to urge the Obama administration to reconsider the nomination.
There are about 22 million veterans nationwide, and they hold considerable sway with Congress. While veterans are hardly in lockstep when it comes to a Democratic president's Cabinet choice, Hagel's personal story resonates with those who have served, says former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., a triple amputee from the Vietnam War.
"He grew up in the heartland of America, goes to war, war of his generation," Cleland said in an interview. "He volunteers to walk point ... because he wants to do it on behalf of his comrades. He gets wounded twice. He still carries some of that shrapnel in his chest, and vows the second time he's wounded that if he's ever in a position to help out the grunts, the average serviceman, the combat soldier that he had served with, he will."
VoteVets, a left-leaning veterans group, has campaigned for Hagel through social media, old-fashioned letters to editors and 18,000 emails from some 9,000 people to all the members of the Senate.
Veterans are a significant part of the population in the home states of Republican senators.
McCain's home state of Arizona has 531,910 veterans, including 176,245 who served in Vietnam, according to figures compiled by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Graham's South Carolina has 421,525 veterans, including 142,290 Vietnam vets. In Georgia, home GOP to Sen. Saxby Chambliss, there are 776,205 veterans, including 254,015 who served in Vietnam.
Texas has 1,675,689 veterans, including 560,927 from the Vietnam War. The state's two Republican senators — John Cornyn and Cruz, the newest member of the Armed Services Committee — announced their opposition to Hagel's nomination last month.
Hagel "passed the GI bill, he was right about Iraq, he was right about Afghanistan," said Jon Soltz, who served two Army tours in Iraq and is the chairman of VoteVets. "When you look at veterans' issues and these types of things, he's been excellent to us and he's one of us. He's been there. Ted Cruz hasn't been there."
Americans for a Strong Defense, one of the outside groups, continues to focus its campaign on states with undecided senators, such as Alaska, Louisiana and Arkansas.
"We found that our grassroots efforts have intensified since Chuck Hagel's disastrous confirmation hearing," said spokesman Ryan Williams. "People are more concerned now about his nomination given the lackluster performance he delivered in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee last week."
Williams, who recently worked for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, said the group has reached out to local leaders to pressure senators while the organization churns out a steady stream of news releases critical of the nominee.
Danny Gonzalez of the group Move America Forward, a pro-military organization, said his group's approach is to "fire up the grassroots and get those people motivated. We're definitely going to notify our list about which senators have publicly stated they are thinking about supporting him, calling their offices, faxes, email."

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Hundreds of dogs and their owners got to witness another walk-off win for the Nationals Saturday as the team's annual Pups in the Park promotion returned to Nationals Park.
Barkley, the canine mascot of the Washington Humane Society, was on hand to assist with the day's festivities, but proved to be a distraction for fellow mascot and noted animal lover Teddy Roosevelt. B
Barkley and Teddy were busy playing in the outfield as the fourth-inning presidents race got underway. Roosevelt failed to compete as George Washington took the tape.
The sellout event, in which tickets and accommodations are provided for dogs and their owners, has been expanded to four dates this season. Dog tickets are still available for June 2 against the Atlanta Braves, July 7 against the Colorado Rockies and Sept. 22 against the Milwaukee Brewers.
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In a move perhaps even more admirable for its sheer boldness than for anything having to do with the quality of the music produced, TV on the Radio have gone and made a record that essentially takes everything that's made them one of indie rock's biggest success stories over the past decade, looks it squarely in the eye, and then promptly throws it right the fuck out the window. It's the kind of thing almost all great bands have to do once or twice throughout their career in order not to burn out. Most bands know it will mean leaving some fans behind; the bands that matter will do it anyway.
With Nine Types of Light, TV on the Radio have all but abandoned the hard-edged funk that first endeared them to us, as well as the soaring arena-readiness that followed, not to mention their most borough-defining sentiment: that it was ok to dance away your problems, as long as you realized such a thing was not only beneath you but maybe even impossible. It was a lot to leave behind, obviously, and they find themselves with a pretty substantial hole to fill.
It's a curious bit of timing, then, that for the first time in their career, TV on the Radio can't rightfully be accused of piling on. These tracks are packed far less densely than ever before, with new elements added sparingly and, if you're listening closely, announced clearly upon their arrival. At over six minutes in length, slow-burner "Killer Crane" manages never to overstay its welcome, building quietly throughout. Brooding strings give way to piano, then to acoustic guitar, bass, banjo and backing vocals. It's arranged beautifully, without even a hint of clutter, and it boasts one of frontman Tunde Adebimpe's strongest vocal performances ever. So too does album opener "Second Song," which, for the first half anyway, sees the band adopting a world-weariness on par with fellow Brooklyn-based indie rock heavyweights the National. "Confidence and ignorance approve me, define my day today," sings Adebimpe, "I've tried to so hard to shut down, lock it up, gently walk away." It's a pretty standard type of navel-gazing, really, until it decides not to be: the deep, deadpan vocals and generally mopey tone are replaced by squealing horns and a cocky falsetto. It's the closest they come to party music here, and they don't sustain it for very long. There's the perfectly addictive "Repetition," with its dizzying vocal melody and classically driving beat, and there's the fist-pumping closer "Caffeinated Consciousness," but they don't quite provide the album's dominant tone.
For a surprisingly large chunk of Nine Types of Light, TV on the Radio lingers in mid-tempo territory,which doesn't always suit them perfectly. "Keep Your Heart" is nice enough at first listen, though it's too long by about a minute, and it awkwardly straddles the line between plainspoken and heavy-handed. "You" does exactly the same thing, actually, but with a much stronger melody and far better results overall. On "Will Do," they flirt pleasantly with soul, and they wind up with something resembling a cheeseball slow-jam. These are songs about being content, basically, and so it's understandable that the music itself would sound so content too. It doesn't always make for the most thrilling listen, of course, but for a band that has so perfectly reflected the concerns of a generation of young people for such a long time, there's something gratifying in seeing them reach a point where they aren't kicking and screaming all the time. They've lost their edge for now, and it's not the end of the world.


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KONA, HI – WWN has confirmed that Megan Fox married Brian Austin Green on June 24th. WWN also confirmed that she is still a man.
Megan Fox was born Mitchell Reed Fox in Rockwood, Tennessee, and was encouraged by his parents to dress in women's clothing and to pursue his dream of becoming a supermodel and actress. Mitchell legally changed his name to Megan in 2003, but his parents still use his birth name. Darlene Fox told WWN, "We're so proud of Mitchell. He always wanted to become the world's most beautiful woman and to walk down the aisle in a wedding gown and now… he's done it!"
Darlene went on to say that she doesn't' feel like she's lost a son, but instead feels she's gained a daughter and another son. Megan's longtime love Green feels like the luckiest guy in the world because he's gained a wife and a brother on the same day.
Fox and Green started dating in 2004, but split in February 2009 after a two-year engagement – right after Megan announced to the world at the Golden Globes that she was a man. But within a few months they had reconciled and Green, 36, popped the question again to Fox, 24, on June 1, 2009. Green said that even though Megan is a man, she is still more beautiful than anyone on the planet and "you have to make compromises in marriage." Megan, who still refuses to undergo sexual reassignment surgery, is ecstatic that Green has accepted her and embraced her maleness. "I'm more in love with him now than I was in the beginning."
Fox wore a plain strapless Giorgio Armani wedding dress – simple, yet elegant. One guest overheard Fox saying she thought she looked like Alan Alda in her wedding gown. Alda did not attend the wedding, but he did say that Megan looked much better in a wedding gown than did Corporal Klinger from M*A*S*H. "It's not easy for a man to look good in a strapless gown, but Megan really pulls it off."
Rumors that Fox had a 16-foot train put on her gown because she was born with a two foot lizard tail are not true. The investigative team at Weekly World News proved the Foxtail story to be completely bogus.
The wedding reception at the Four Seasons was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the intimate group in attendance. Megan gave a humorous and touching Best Man speech, then tossed her garter. The couple's first dance was to a new version of the Michael Bolton classic entitled, "When A Man Loves A Woman Who Is A Man."
Green and Fox met on the set of the sitcom, Hope and Faith, which became their honeymoon mantra.


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Cheeni Kum Movie Review
Three weeks late, but finally, I saw the Cheeni Kum (which in English means Less Sugar). The reason I avoided seeing this earlier was because I don't like Amitabh much, though I did like his performance in Sarkar. But I love Tabu and then – everyone was talking about the movie.
Well, this romantic comedy is funny, light and the first half completely absorbing. The movie opens in an Indian restaurent in London called Spice6. Buddhdev Gupta (Amitabh) is the proud owner/chef. He is a perfectionist short-tempered boss who makes life hell for his employees. Living as a bachelor for 64 years has made him egoistic and unbearable. However this provides an opportunity for some good comic scenes…as Buddha alternates between yelling and bantering with his boys in the kitchen. However one of the reoccurring jokes about a waiter's potruding teeth was overplayed, thus making it tasteless.
Buddha's life revolves around his restaurant…and his mother (played by Zohra Sehgal) who lives with him.
His life changes when beautiful Nina Verma (Tabu) walks into his restaurant and complains about a certain Hyderabadi Pulao…in fact sparks start to fly! Sparks that kindle a sweet romance. The age gap between the two maybe all of 30 years, but it doesn't seem to matter when you watch them bantering and joking with each other. After all Nina is a mature woman who knows what she wants and the romance between the two does not conjure up the disgust that Amitabh's movie Nishabd did. In Nishabd he is shown as a grandfatherly figure of 60 romancing a young college girl of 18 whom he could not possibly have anything in common with. The only way the Nishabd romance would have been believable was if he had been shown as being attracted by her youth and her body. But he isn't…and the movie turned out to be a hypocritical rendering of a pedophile's lust for a young girl. Cheeni Kum movie is not like that at all. The chemistry between the two comes through and their mutual attraction is romantic and touching.
Amitabh looks haggard in some scenes however, every bit of the 64 he was playing…but his acting was flawless. And as for Tabu, she is absolutely fantastic. Not just the way she looks, but the way she carries herself too…and her acting was natural and understated.
But a review of this movie cannot be written about without mentioning the little 8 year-old girl called Sexy (Swini Khara) who is Budhha's neighbour. She suffers from blood cancer and by showing the deep attachement she shares with Buddha, the director R Balakrishnan reveals to us Buddha's soft side. Sexy has some funny and some very bitter-sweet lines to deliver and though they were lines far too wise for her years, the kid is a treat to watch.
The first half of the movie just swooshed past…but the second half, when Buddha goes to Delhi to get 'permission' from Nina's dad (played by Paresh Rawal), for the marriage is less enjoyable. Paresh is an excellent actor and a very good comedian but in this movie he did not get a chance to do justice to a role that I felt was half-baked. He acts like a retired (retarded?) guy who decides to starve himself to death when he hears of his daughter's choice. Its not as if Indian parents don't use blackmail in these circumstances…it was the way the role played out…like a farce.
The music, by Ikyaraja, is very good. Very haunting. But apparently these are his own Tamil tracks which he has recyled in Hindi.
This two hour twenty minute film is worth a watch. If only to see how Bollywood movies are coming of age. No song and dance, not much melodrama…just a high dose of reality. And we are not talking of the stark reality of the underworld, or harsh city life with drug addicts and prostitutes taking up screen time…but real people like you and me.


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LONDON – Researchers believed a five-fold increase in UFO sightings in 1996 was due to the screening of TV series "The X-Files".
As part of a project between the Ministry of Defense and The National Archives, the MoD has been releasing records of UFO sightings for public viewing.
While the sightings didn't vary much in content, researchers are paying attention to the numbers. In 1996, the number of sightings jumped from 117 to 609, a five-fold increase!
The number remained high in 1997, at 425, but dropped down to the average number of 193 in 1998.
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The Situation of Kissing
Posted by The Situationist Staff on February 12, 2008
Chip Walter has an interesting article in a recent issue of Scientific American Mind on "Why We Kiss," examining what researchers are discovering about the powerful messages relayed to your brain, body, and partner through a kiss. As part of Valentine's Day theme, we've excerpted a few sections of the article below.
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When passion takes a grip, a kiss locks two humans together in an exchange of scents, tastes, textures, secrets and emotions. We kiss furtively, lasciviously, gently, shyly, hungrily and exuberantly. We kiss in broad daylight and in the dead of night. We give ceremonial kisses, affectionate kisses, Hollywood air kisses, kisses of death and, at least in fairytales, pecks that revive princesses.
Lips may have evolved first for food and later applied themselves to speech, but in kissing they satisfy different kinds of hungers. In the body, a kiss triggers a cascade of neural messages and chemicals that transmit tactile sensations, sexual excitement, feelings of closeness, motivation and even euphoria.Not all the messages are internal. After all, kissing is a communal affair. The fusion of two bodies dispatches communiqués to your partner as powerful as the data you stream to yourself. Kisses can convey important information about the status and future of a relationship. So much, in fact, that, according to recent research, if a first kiss goes bad, it can stop an otherwise promising relationship dead in its tracks.Some scientists believe that the fusing of lips evolved because it facilitates mate selection. "Kissing," said evolutionary psychologist Gordon G. Gallup of the University at Albany, State University of New York, last September in an interview with the BBC, "involves a very complicated exchange of information—olfactory information, tactile information and postural types of adjustments that may tap into underlying evolved and unconscious mechanisms that enable people to make determinations … about the degree to which they are genetically incompatible." Kissing may even reveal the extent to which a partner is willing to commit to raising children, a central issue in long-term relationships and crucial to the survival of our species.
Satisfying Hunger
Whatever else is going on when we kiss, our evolutionary history is embedded within this tender, tempestuous act. In the 1960s British zoologist and author Desmond Morris first proposed that kissing might have evolved from the practice in which primate mothers chewed food for their young and then fed them mouth-to-mouth, lips puckered. Chimpanzees feed in this manner, so our hominid ancestors probably did, too. Pressing outturned lips against lips may have then later developed as a way to comfort hungry children when food was scarce and, in time, to express love and affection in general. The human species might eventually have taken these proto-parental kisses down other roads until we came up with the more passionate varieties we have today.
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Good Chemistry
Since kissing evolved, the act seems to have become addictive. Human lips enjoy the slimmest layer of skin on the human body, and the lips are among the most densely populated with sensory neurons of any body region. When we kiss, these neurons, along with those in the tongue and mouth, rocket messages to the brain and body, setting off delightful sensations, intense emotions and physical reactions.
Of the 12 or 13 cranial nerves that affect cerebral function, five are at work when we kiss, shuttling messages from our lips, tongue, cheeks and nose to a brain that snatches information about the temperature, taste, smell and movements of the entire affair. Some of that information arrives in the somatosensory cortex, a swath of tissue on the surface of the brain that represents tactile information in a map of the body. In that map, the lips loom large because the size of each represented body region is proportional to the density of its nerve endings.
Kissing unleashes a cocktail of chemicals that govern human stress, motivation, social bonding and sexual stimulation. In a new study, psychologist Wendy L. Hill and her student Carey A. Wilson of Lafayette College compared the levels of two key hormones in 15 college male-female couples before and after they kissed and before and after they talked to each other while holding hands. One hormone, oxytocin, is involved in social bonding, and the other, cortisol, plays a role in stress. Hill and Wilson predicted that kissing would boost levels of oxytocin, which also influences social recognition, male and female orgasm, and childbirth. They expected this effect to be particularly pronounced in the study's females, who reported higher levels of intimacy in their relationships. They also forecast a dip in cortisol, because kissing is presumably a stress reliever.
But the researchers were surprised to find that oxytocin levels rose only in the males, whereas it decreased in the females, after either kissing or talking while holding hands. They concluded that females must require more than a kiss to feel emotionally connected or sexually excited during physical contact. Females might, for example, need a more romantic atmosphere than the experimental setting provided, the authors speculate. The study, which Hill and Wilson reported in November 2007 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, revealed that cortisol levels dropped for both sexes no matter the form of intimacy, a hint that kissing does in fact reduce stress.
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Kissing has other primal effects on us as well. Visceral marching orders boost pulse and blood pressure. The pupils dilate, breathing deepens and rational thought retreats, as desire suppresses both prudence and self-consciousness. . . .
Litmus Test
Although a kiss may not be wise, it can be pivotal to a relationship. . . .
. . . . In a recent survey Gallup and his colleagues found that 59 percent of 58 men and 66 percent of 122 women admitted there had been times when they were attracted to someone only to find that their interest evaporated after their first kiss. The "bad" kisses had no particular flaws; they simply did not feel right—and they ended the romantic relationship then and there—a kiss of death for that coupling.
The reason a kiss carries such weight, Gallup theorizes, is that it conveys subconscious information about the genetic compatibility of a prospective mate. His hypothesis is consistent with the idea that kissing evolved as a courtship strategy because it helps us rate potential partners.
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Despite all these observations, a kiss continues to resist complete scientific dissection. Close scrutiny of couples has illuminated new complexities woven throughout this simplest and most natural of acts—and the quest to unmask the secrets of passion and love is not likely to end soon. But romance gives up its mysteries grudgingly. And in some ways, we like it like that.
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To read the entirety of Chip Walter's article, click here. To read some related blogging from our blogroll, here (laurafreberg.com) and here (mindhacks.com). To listen to a 30-minute BBC radio program on "The Kiss" (its origin, chemistry, physiology and cultural significance"), click here. For related posts, go to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "The Situation of Cupid's Arrow." Kisses.
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North Carolina coast survives Hurricane Arthur
KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — Proving far less damaging than feared, Hurricane Arthur left tens of thousands of people without power Friday in a swipe at North Carolina's dangerously exposed Outer Banks, then brought lousy Fourth of July beach weather to parts of the Northeast as it veered out to sea.
The weather along the narrow barrier islands — where beaches draw hundreds of thousands of tourists every summer — had already cleared by Friday afternoon as Arthur scooted north and its outer bands scraped the Delaware and New Jersey shores. Forecasters predicted the storm would weaken before its center moves over western Nova Scotia in Canada early Saturday.
While state and local officials worked to restore access to Hatteras Island and help those who had suffered storm and flooding damage, the effects of the hurricane were mostly confined to that part of the state. Farther south, the beaches were once again packed with people soaking up the sun.
"The North Carolina beaches are open for business and they're open for tourists," Gov. Pat McCrory said. "The umbrellas are going up as we speak right now."
Arthur struck North Carolina as a Category 2 storm with winds of 100 mph late Thursday, taking about five hours to move across the far eastern part of the state.
At the height of the storm, more than 40,000 people lost power, and the rush of water from the ocean on one side and the sound on the other side buckled part of North Carolina Highway 12 in a spot on Hatteras Island that was breached in Hurricane Irene in 2011. Dozens of workers were heading to fix the highway, and the Department of Transportation said it was confident the road would reopen Saturday as long as an underwater sonar test of a key bridge showed no problems.
No injuries or deaths were reported. After praising emergency officials and saying the state dodged a bullet, McCrory said he was heading to the beach himself for an Independence Day parade in Southport.
By Friday night, the hurricane had weakened to a Category 1 storm with 75 mph winds. Its center was about 75 miles (120 km) east-southeast of Chatham, Massachusetts.
While the Northeast wasn't expected to take a direct hit, the rain from Arthur's outer bands was disrupting the holiday. Rain from Hurricane Arthur disrupted some New York-area Independence Day celebrations but cleared in time for the nation's largest fireworks display in the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Tropical storm warnings were in effect for coastal areas as far north as Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Tropical storm watches and warnings were in effect for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in southeastern Canada.
Still, the first hurricane known to strike the U.S. on July 4 caused some frayed nerves on North Carolina's Outer Banks — a 200-mile string of narrow barrier islands with about 57,000 permanent residents and around 250,000 visitors on most summer weekends. A mandatory evacuation was issued for the southern Outer Banks. But while most visitors left, many residents stayed, accustomed to hurricanes that strike the area on average about every four or five years.
Jesse and Carol Wray rode out the storm in their home in Salvo on North Carolina Highway 12. They said the island was under several feet of water at the height of the storm. The six-foot-tall lamppost at the end of their driveway was under water except for its top, and that was after the sound a quarter-mile away receded several feet.
"There's a lot of damage to a lot of houses around here," Wray said. "Everything flooded out. All the businesses are flooded, and there was a lot of wind damage."
The bulk of the flooding and other damage on Hatteras Island appeared to have happened in the island's midsection in the villages of Rodanthe and Salvo. Farther south in Buxton, Angela Tawes is eager for the road to reopen, the ferries to resume and tourists to return with their money.
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Arthur is the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. It is the earliest in the season a hurricane has made landfall in North Carolina.
McCrory said people in states to the northeast should need to warnings about Arthur, even if North Carolina came through better than expected.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A southwest Missouri man accused of plotting to shoot up a movie theater during the new "Twilight" film was charged Friday after his mother contacted police, telling them she worried her son had purchased weapons similar to those used during the fatal Colorado theater shooting.
Blaec Lammers, 20, of Bolivar, is charged with first-degree assault, making a terroristic threat and armed criminal action. He was jailed in Polk County on $500,000 bond.
"Thankfully we had a responsible family member or we might have had a different outcome," Bolivar Police Chief Steve Hamilton told The Associated Press. He said Lammers is under a doctor's care for mental illness, and court documents said he was "off of his medication."
A phone message left by The Associated Press at Lammers' home wasn't returned Friday. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.
His mother contacted authorities Thursday, saying she worried that with this weekend's opening of the final film in the popular Vampire movie series, her son "may have intentions of shooting people at the movie," police wrote in the probable cause statement.
She said she thought the weapons - two assault rifles and hundreds of bullets - resembled those used by a gunman who opened fire inside a theater in Aurora, Colo., during the latest Batman movie in July. That attack killed 12 people.
Lammers was questioned Thursday afternoon and told authorities he bought tickets to a Sunday "Twilight" screening in Bolivar and planned to shoot people inside the theater. The town of roughly 10,000 people is about 130 miles southeast of Kansas City.
According to the probable cause statement, Lammers also planned to "just start shooting people at random" at a Walmart store less than a mile away. He said he'd purchased two assault rifles and 400 rounds of ammunition, and if he ran out of bullets, he would "just break the glass where the ammunition is being stored and get some more and keep shooting until police arrived," investigators wrote.
Lammers stated he wanted to stab a Walmart employee to death and followed an employee around a Walmart store before officers got involved in 2009, according to police.
When asked about recent shootings in the news, Lammers told police "he had a lot in common with the people that have been involved in those shootings," the probable cause statement said. Investigators also wrote that Lammers said he "was quiet, kind of a loner, had recently purchased firearms and didn't tell anybody about it, and had homicidal thoughts."
Police said Lammers bought one firearm Monday and another Tuesday. He then went to the Missouri town of Aldrich to practice shooting because he "had never shot a gun before and wanted to make sure he knew how they shot and how they functioned," the probable cause statement said.
Hamilton said it appeared that Lammers obtained the firearms legally but that police were continuing to investigate "to determine how in fact he was able to obtain a permit."
Ashley Miller, who lives in a nearby town, said she has known Lammers for about a year and described him as "one of the sweetest guys I had ever met" but "very emotional," noting he would periodically stop talking to her.
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Polk County prosecutor Ken Ashlock said Lammers' first court appearance likely will happen Wednesday. He said his office would file a motion asking for a mental exam of Lammers. He said he wasn't aware of any charges in the 2009 Walmart incident.
Like the police chief, the prosecutor credited Lammers' mother for contacting police.
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Members of a home-based church in the city of Ahvaz are very concerned about their detained member and have reported that after more than a month from his arrest there are no precise information about his condition, reports FCNN.
According to the reports received by the Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN) from the city of Ahvaz, the capital city of the rich petroleum province of Khoozestan in the Southwestern part of Iran, members of a home-based church have informed this news network that more than a month ago one of their members, Neshan Saeedi, has been detained and there are no specific information regarding his condition. This has caused serious worry and concern for the members of the church as well as his family and friends.
The 27 years old Mr. " Neshan Saeedi" , on July 24, 2010 at 9:00 pm, while spending a quiet evening with his wife and young daughter at their home at the Golestan neighborhood of Ahvaz, was attacked by plain-clothes security forces that had entered his house and was arrested.
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The security officers not only insulted the wife of Mr. Saeedi, but indicated that they were apostates and not worthy of raising their 6 years old daughter. They threatened her that if they continue in their Christian activities they may lose their right to her daughter.
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A longtime Kansas City Chiefs fan says he swapped six game tickets for a wedding ring set advertised on Craigslist.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A longtime Kansas City Chiefs fan says he swapped six game tickets for a wedding ring set advertised on Craigslist.
The buyer, 49-year-old Kansas City resident Rusty Jones, said he first learned of the ring offer last week through a story in The Kansas City Star. He contacted the seller, who wanted to swap the rings and surprise a loved one with tickets to the Dec. 1 game at Arrowhead Stadium, The Kansas City Star reported Friday.
The tickets are a hot commodity as the Chiefs have started the season 9-0, and the December home game against Denver could have playoff implications.
A season ticket holder since 1993, Jones said he and his girlfriend had started talking about engagement rings a month ago. He had tickets to offer, though not the club-level seats the seller was seeking. Nonetheless, his offer worked: Four tickets to the Broncos game and two tickets to the Nov. 24 Chargers game, all in section 123 near the end zone.
Jones said the seller lost his contact information and ended up reposting the Craigslist ad. He reached out again and made a deal.
The rings, which the newspaper said were from the seller's previous marriage, were appraised at $2,800.
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Tino Martinez, a two-time Major League All-Star and four-time World Series champion, headlines a set of seven players and coaches who will represent the 2013 class of the College Baseball Hall of Fame.
Martinez starred at the University of Tampa before becoming a first-round Draft choice by the Mariners in 1988. He will be joined by Sal Bando, Ralph Garr, Roy Smalley, Tom Borland and coaches Don Schaly and John Winkin.
"This class brings a different flavor to the induction process because it features our first Division III coach, perhaps the greatest Division II player ever and three players from the 1950s, '60s and early '70s, which is a time period that has been a bit underrepresented in past inductions," said Mike Gustafson, executive director of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. "We are excited to welcome them to the Hall of Fame."
Bando, a third baseman at Arizona State in 1964-65, proceeded to earn four MLB All-Star Game nods. He directed the Sun Devils to their first national title in 1965, when he won Most Valuable Player of the College World Series.
Garr batted .418 in a four-year stint at Grambling University from 1964-67, including a Division II-record .582 his senior season. He compiled a career average of .306 over 13 big league seasons, including a .353 mark in 1974, when he played in the Midsummer Classic. Garr is the fourth inductee selected by the Black Legends and Pioneers Committee, designated to honor players and coaches at historically black colleges and universities whose careers commenced before 1975.
Smalley, a first-team All-American shortstop for the University of Southern California in 1973, represented the Minnesota Twins in the All-Star Game six years later. He and Trojans teammate Fred Lynn captained USC to a pair of national championships. Smalley played 13 years in the big leagues, including 10 with the Twins.
Borland posted a 19-2 record in two years at Oklahoma State University, leading the school to its first two CWS appearances. He was awarded MVP of the tournament in 1955. Borland pitched in 27 total games for the Red Sox in 1960 and '61.
Martinez was recognized as the 1988 National Division II Player of the Year. He maintains school records for career home runs, batting average, slugging percentage and single-season batting average and slugging percentage. He socked 339 home runs across 16 Major League seasons, seven spent with the Yankees and six with the Mariners.
Schaly logged an .812 winning percentage at Division III Marietta College from 1964-2003, the best mark of any college coach at any level with more than 500 victories. He captured three national championships and was named National Coach of the Year on four occasions.
Winkin collected more than 1,000 wins in 50-plus years of coaching at the University of Maine, Colby College and Husson College. His Maine teams qualified for the NCAA Tournament 11 times, and his Black Bears made six CWS appearances.
The 2013 class will be inducted on June 28-29 in Lubbock, Texas, as part of the College Baseball Night of Champions.
"I am so happy to welcome a new class of inductees that includes Coach Schaly and Coach Winkin, among the other tremendous inductees," Gustafson said. "They are extremely well-respected among their coaching peers, so this recognition is due."


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"A shift in the franchise's tone makes for a dull solo outing, but a solid co-op game"
- Co-op gameplay is fun
- Weapon building offers a ton of variety
- Good action moments
- The survival horror series is now all about action
- Solo gameplay is dull
- Many of the sections are repetetive and dull
In one of the more ironic developments in recent years, it appears that game developers are afraid of fear. The once-healthy survival horror genre is dying a slow death, as even the perennial powerhouses in the genre – like the Resident Evil franchise – shift from fear-based-gaming to a more traditional, action-rich style that just happens to use the same trappings. There is plenty of gore, but a diminishing return on tension. This is the road Dead Space 3 has decided to walk.
The first Dead Space was a claustrophobic game with distinctive sections that put combat behind survival as a choice. Even the controls were made with a creeping motion in mind, and you did not want to get cornered. Dead Space 2 embraced more combat, but at the cost of diminished tension. Dead Space 3 goes even further in that direction, and pays the same price.
Dead Space 3 lacks both fear and tension in almost any real sense. There are a few moments when the game tries to startle you, but its the equivalent of someone shouting "boo." You can typically expect to be attacked in every single room you enter, and the combat never stops. It breeds a predictability that soon makes the solo campaign feel a bit stale after numerous, similar combat scenarios – but it actually works well for the co-op mode, even if it creates other problems.
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The story of Dead Space 3 is far less disturbing than the last two games in the series, and far less compelling as well. The game begins with a reclusive, but otherwise well-preserved Isaac Clarke doing his thing. The bouts of hallucinations have mostly left him, and he's relatively well adjusted for having dismembered hundreds of creeping horrors, and having had an evil shade of his dead girlfriend nag him for years. When his totally alive ex-girlfriend Ellie reports that she was on to something major and then disappears, he is once again neck deep in dismembered necromorph limbs.
The search takes him to the frozen wasteland of Tau Volantis and an orbiting graveyard of ships, home to a colony that died out two centuries earlier after stopping a Marker. Naturally, things go poorly.
The game set in two locations: in orbit around the planet, and on the planet itself. Isaac bounces between derelict ships completing objectives and optional missions – a first for the series – while trying to solve the mystery of Tau Volantis. When the action shifts to the ground, Isaac is left to explore an abandoned research facility that may hold the key to stopping the spread of the Markers.
None of these characters deliver any surprises. Isaac is a more traditional hero than before, Carver (the co-op avatar) is a stereotypical gruff military guy with a dark past, Ellie is the love interest. The others are incidental and forgettable, and tend to make the story more ridiculous – including the inclusion of a completely unnecessary and generic love triangle. It's never bad, just bland.
Familiarity breeds contempt
The different areas, both on and off planet, are remarkably similar. Once you enter one derelict ship in orbit you've seen most of what there is to see. Designer sprinkled in a handful of standout visuals – including some very cool-looking moments in space – but these are the exception rather than the rule.
Even when the game tees it up and sends you to somewhere ripe for creativity like a biology lab, the result is just one more area with some biology-themed décor. You can't escape the feeling of wasted potential. Like the story, the lacks the creative spark that set the first two games apart.
The shift to more combat dramatically changes the game's environments as well. The first game wanted dark and claustrophobic areas, and worked by putting you in sections that kept you guessing what was around the corner. The second game tried to do the same while giving you a bit more room for combat. The third game is designed to funnel combat towards you.
Rather than slowly creeping around corners preparing for a battle, you'll want to find an area you can defend and let the necromorphs attack you, virtually shouting "come at me, bro!" while the necromorphs charge and shout back, "There he is, let's go eat his face!"
Without being able to maneuver as fast or as gracefully as the necromorphs, you'll inevitably end up in a corner firing away until the area is clear, then casually moving on to the next area unmolested.
The original Dead Space was a constant battle for resources, intertwined with enemies that would wait to jump you when you least expected it. That is totally absent in Dead Space 3. Plentiful ammo and health drops prevent you from every having to play too tactically. Once you complete the 15+ hour game, you then can replay the campaign under "Classic mode." This gives you fewer resources, tougher enemies, and the original weapons. It sounds like a good compromise for the original fans of the series, but it underestimates the impact of a clever level design and playing with convention. Sometimes less is more, and a few less enemies that teased their presence and made you wait for an attack would have been more fun than a stream of enemies, regardless of how tough they are.
Weapons: Because you can never have too many saw blades
One area that does excel in Dead Space 3 is the weapon crafting. The guns from the previous games are gone and have been replaced with a customizable weapon that you design yourself. As before, each gun has two modes of fire, but unlike the previous games, these two weapons can be anything you want.
Throughout the game, you earn pieces of weapons for construction. Each weapon then has a slot for an upper and a lower power type that defines the type of weapon it is. A tesla coil will produce an electric beam, a plasma core will create fire, a rip cord makes saw blades – there are several options. Once you have your power source, you then select the tip of that weapon. A narrow tip can turn a machine gun into a sniper rifle, a line tip can turn an electric weapon into a spread gun, and a pulse tip can create a shotgun-like blast. You can even double up and have dual saw blades or two flame throwers. It's almost unfair to the necromorphs.
On top of that, you can add attributes like additional damage or clip size, which are determined by the type of frame. Attachments add modifiers like a scope or electrical damage, while others are specifically made for co-op and add bonuses like healing your partner when you heal yourself, or sharing stasis charges.
It may take a while to earn the pieces to create the gun you want, but when you do you should be able to construct your ideal loadout tailored to your style of play. You can change your weapons at any of the game's numerous bench stations, or head to the weapons lab accessible from the main menu and experiment. There are hundreds, if not thousands of options to tinker with. The game has no shortage of resources to scavenge, and that is partly due to the fact that the game is made for two people.
Bring a friend
Dead Space 3 is designed as a co-op game first and foremost, and here the game actually shines. Adding another person doesn't rob you of any frights because there are none there to begin with. Instead, the plot is actually more complete with the dialogue between Isaac and EarthGov Sergeant John Carver, who has his own backstory and reasons for being there. He also has his own objectives. The game offers several co-op missions that help tell more of Carver's story, and they are only accessible with a partner.
While the game has its share of problems, the co-op makes up for it to a degree. Stomping necromorphs with a buddy rarely gets old, and it's fun to work with someone, select the right weapons that compliment each other, and then mercilessly attack anything that moves.That might be a bit of a let down to those that were hoping for a more survival-horror slant as in the previous titles, but if you can overlook that Dead Space 3's co-op is the highlight of the game.
Dead Space 3 has issues with the level design, pacing, and story, but its biggest sin is simply not being able to live up to its predecessors. It may not even be in the same genre anymore. If you can divorce yourself of your preconceived notions formed from the experience playing the previous games, Dead Space 3 is still average, but doesn't carry the crushing weight of the missed opportunities hanging onto it.
If you can put that aside, the co-op makes up for the bland single player, and is fun almost despite itself. But it came at the cost of the franchise's identity.
Score: 7.5 out of 10
(This game was reviewed on the Xbox 360 courtesy of a copy provided by the publisher)
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For the Washington Nationals' last game before the All Star break, the team today welcomed Potomac Nationals mascot Uncle Slam to Nationals Park to cheer on the team and participate in the Nationals presidents race for the first time. Unfortunately for Teddy fans, the extra competition did nothing to slow down a juggernaut called Abe Lincoln.
For those unfamiliar with Uncle Slam, he is the mascot for the Washington Nationals' Class A minor league affiliate Potomac Nationals, which play just a short drive down I-95 in Prince William County Virginia. It was a timely appearance. With the Nationals away until July 29, the next two weeks are the perfect time to check out some of your future Nationals at intimate Pfitzner Stadium. The current roster includes such top prospects as pitcher Ross Detwiler and first baseman Chris Marrero, and rehabbing Nationals such as Ryan Wagner. Even Ryan Zimmerman is expected to get two rehab starts next week with the P-Nats.
As for the presidents race, Teddy came out in front and was followed by Uncle Slam, but as has become so common this season, Abe Lincoln turned on the afterburners to pass everybody before they reached the finish line. Abe's seventh straight victory marks a first-ever homestand sweep of the presidents race. Teddy, Tom, and George all need to hit the training room over the all star break if they are to have any hope of catching Abe this season. Maybe Teddy should ask Abe what he's been eating for breakfast.
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Before there was Rupert Murdoch and Wendi, his pie-spiking wife; before the celebrity sphere was all a twitter about 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison marrying a reportedly 16-year-old Courtney Stodden, there was Herbert David Boutall, 63, and his 16-year-old bride, Ann
Dubbed a "hot weather item," in my father's column on July 16, 1938, the item wasn't about the temperatures at all. It was about a May-December romance that made headlines across the nation.
"Both of the characters in this February-December drama are white, but what of it?" my father wrote. "One newspaper carried a picture of the elderly Romeo lifting his youthful bride-to-be, just to show his retained strength."
Boutall, a widower from Athol, Mass. is quoted as saying: "The only ones in the neighborhood who object to the marriage are a couple of old maids who think I should marry someone nearer my own age. My answer to them is that when I buy a piano I don't want an antique. I want one that plays."
"Boutall should be careful about making assertions about purchasing antiques," Ebenezer wrote. "His young bride might awaken some fine morning to realize that she has done just that."
In hindsight, Ebenezer might have taken his own advice about making assertions. Ten years later, he would end up in his own May-December romance. My mother, certainly no child, was only 22 years my father's junior, which doesn't come close to the Boutalls' 47-year age difference. Still, it's a reminder that you never know when your own words will come back to bite you, especially when you are talking about "old" people. .
I followed the Boutall marriage in the archives of the Boston Globe. More than 5000 spectators lined the streets for the wedding on July 11, 1938. The church only seated 120. In August, a subsequent Globe article intimated that the couple was thinking of selling their New England farm and moving to England, where Herbert was from. A year later, they were still in Athol, according to the Globe headline: "Farmer, 64, wife 17, will mark first year of marital bliss today."
Then in May 1940, the Globe announced that the "May–December couple proud parents of a girl." They had a son the next June, but, alas, on April 10, 1943, the Globe announced, "Gap of 47 years too much for Athol pair, so they've separated."
The paper quoted Herbert as saying, "If she wants a younger man she can have one." According to that Globe article, Herbert was headed to England to work in a war plant. His wife and children moved back in with her parents.
Perhaps she got a new piano.


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I cooked up a storm this season since we've had lots of guests at meals meal during the Holy Days. These can, however, be made and enjoyed at any time and they'll be perfect no matter what the occasion!
Let me start with an appetizer that went over very well:
Sesame Chicken Toasts
Serves 12
- 4 boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1 boneless skinless chicken breast half
- 1 egg, beaten
- 3 green onions, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
- 1/4 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 12-15 slices white sandwich bread, crust removed and cut into 8 triangles
- 1/2 cup sesame seeds
- Vegetable oil
- Process chicken in food processor until finely chopped. Add egg, green onion, garlic, cilantro, broth, pepper, and salt. Pulse a few times to mix well.
- Scatter sesame seeds onto a plate. Sread a thick layer of chicken mixture over bread pieces. Press spread side into seeds making an even covering.
- Heat 1/2 oil in a skillet until hot. Quickly fry triangles for 2-3 minutes on both sides. turning once until golden browned. Drain toasts on paper towels.
Toast may be prepared in advance. Store in refrigerator for 3 days or frozen up to a month. Thaw overninght in refrigerator. Reheat in hot oven for 5 minutes.
Roasted Summer Vegetables
(Adapted from The Big Book of One Pot)
Serves 4
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 fennel bulb, cut into wedges
- 2 red onions, cut into wedges
- 2 beefsteak tomatoes, cut into wedges
- 1 eggplant, thickly sliced
- 2 zucchini, thickly sliced
- 1 yellow bell pepper, seeded and cut into chunks
- 1 red bell pepper, seeded and cut into chunks
- 1 orange bell pepper, seeded and cut into chunks
- 4 garlic cloves
- 4 fresh rosemary sprigs
- ground black pepper
- crusty bread, to serve
- Brush an ovenproof dish with a little oil. Arrange the fennel, onions, tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini and bell peppers in the dish and tuck the garlic cloves and rosemary sprigs among them.Drizzle with the remaining oil and season to taste with pepper.
- Roast the vegetables in a preheated oven at 400 F, for 10 minutes. Turn the vegetables over, return the dish to the oven and roast for another 10-15 minutes or until the vegetables are tender and beginning to turn golden brown.
- Serve the vegetables straight from the dish or transfer to a warm serving platter. Serve immediately, with crusty bread to soak up the juices.
(Adapted from: The Big Book of One Pot. When I made this dish I tripled it, as we had 11 people at the particular meal).
My guests were very pleased with the above dishes, I hope you will enjoy as well.